The Master Work and Health (WH) offers students an advanced and multidisciplinary course in prevention of work-related health problems and reintegration into work. Students improve their basic skills for working in the work and health field and acquire more advanced scientific competences. Both are indispensable for the analysis of current health problems that are related to work and for the development of well-designed and feasible plans to resolve these problems.
Basically, work and health are related in two ways. Firstly, the workplace is an important determinant of health and illness. Therefore, employee health is an important asset of Human Resources Management. Modern organisations apply approaches such as Health Management or Disability Management. Employees need healthy (in physical, psychological and social terms) workplaces to keep fit. Moreover, worksites are more and more appreciated for promoting healthy lifestyles.
Secondly, if employees develop health problems (whether work-related or not) they become in need of specific support to reintegrate into work. The chronically ill need constant support to be able to work. Reintegration and continuous assistance are increasingly relevant as having a job is important to participate fully in today’s society. Thus, conditional upon healthy working conditions, having a job will in itself increase people’s wellbeing.
We regret to inform you that as of September 2011 the Master’s programme Work & Health will no longer be offered. Despite of the good quality of the programme, we couldn’t recruit enough students to keep the master’s programme financially healthy. We aim to start a renewed master's programme Career & Health as of September 2013. As soon as we have more information about this new programme, it will be made available through this website.
Please contact Inge Houkes for more information.